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A scoundrel who lives in the shadows.
Jack Turner grew up in the darkness of London's slums, born into a life of crime and willing to do anything to keep his belly full and his siblings safe. Now he uses the tricks and schemes of the underworld to help those who need the kind of assistance only a scoundrel can provide. His distrust of the nobility runs deep and his services do not extend to the gorgeous high-born soldier who personifies everything...
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An earl hiding from his future . . . Lawrence Browne, the Earl of Radnor, is mad. At least, that's what he and most of the village believes. A brilliant scientist, he hides himself away in his family's crumbling estate, unwilling to venture into the outside world. When an annoyingly handsome man arrives at Penkellis, claiming to be Lawrence's new secretary, his carefully planned world is turned upside down. A swindler haunted by his past . . . Georgie...
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A seductive thief
Lady's maid Molly Wilkins is done with thieving-and cheating and stabbing and all the rest of it. She's determined to keep her hands to herself, so she really shouldn't be tempted to seduce her employer's prim and proper companion, Alice. But how can she resist when Alice can't seem to keep her eyes off Molly?
Finds her own heart
For the first time in her life, Alice Stapleton has absolutely nothing to do. The only thing that...
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Rogue. Libertine. Rake. Lord Courtenay has been called many things and has never much cared. But after the publication of a salacious novel supposedly based on his exploits, he finds himself shunned from society. Unable to see his nephew, he is willing to do anything to improve his reputation, even if that means spending time with the most proper man in London. Julian Medlock has spent years becoming the epitome of correct behavior. As far as he cares,...
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La primera historia completa de las SS que se publica desde hace más de una generación. No se trata, como dice el autor, de "una historia exhaustiva de sus actividades, pero sí una descripción bastante minuciosa de sus cometidos esenciales en el Tercer Reich."
Comprende materiales inéditos, fotos exclusivas y documentos clasificados que revelan la organización interna de un cuerpo que en 1935 contaba con más de ochocientos mil hombres. El...
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James Sallis, author of the Lew Griffin detective stories, has been praised as one of Southern literature's most original voices. In Cypress Grove, a murder with eerie connections to the past brings a man back to his calling. Turner was a homicide cop long ago, until he got mixed up in the wrong case and ended up behind bars himself. Now retired to a cabin in a small Southern town, Turner's been recruited by the local Sheriff to help solve a bizarre...
7) Salt River
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Author James Sallis is acclaimed for his taut mysteries featuring world-weary ex-Memphis cop John Turner, including Cripple Creek. Assuming the role of deputy sheriff in a small town near the city, Turner investigates sordid cases in a community that time is slowly forgetting. Here his past catches up to him when his son rolls down Main Street riding in what appears to be a stolen car.
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James Sallis' stories about ex-cop, ex-con, and ex-psychotherapist Turner have garnered starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly. Back working as a deputy in a small Tennessee town, Turner's hands are full when the sheriff and the only other deputy are shot and the shooter escapes the county jail. Tracking the criminal to Memphis, Turner uncovers disturbing connections to organized crime.
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Corruption at Turner Creek reveals the struggle in the early life of Parson Bane Barlow. The past he had buried long ago comes back to haunt him through an un-expected twist. Will his integrity be enough to bury it again? Does character matter? Bane gave up a life headed in the wrong direction to follow the call of God. Ride the trail with him as he carries a Bible in one saddlebag and a six-gun in the other while proclaiming the gospel message to...
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Bane Barlow left behind a life of guns and business for a Bible and a pair of saddlebags. A wealthy Texas cattleman buys him a train ticket west and Bane rides into more trouble than "he can shake a stick at." With the call of God on his life, he is sent on a wild mission to a fledgling gold mining town in California. Then he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a case of stolen gold and murder! Who can he trust? And where is the mysterious Chad...
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U.S. Treasury Operative Alex Turner and double-agent Slav Lily are back and battling warring factions over coveted diamond pipes in the Arctic-in the thrilling sequel to The Russian Pink.
Alex Turner and his treacherous lover, the Russian diamond thief Slav Lily, are back on the hunt. An American prospector is murdered, in the great diamond field of northern Canada-a magical landscape of pristine lakes and granite ridges and scarlet vegetation.
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Craig Lenzati, the rich and powerful CEO of Chicago's answer to Microsoft, is found brutally murdered with stab wounds all over his body. The murder is reported anonymously, and a quick and quiet resolution to the case is demanded by City Hall. Meanwhile, the list of suspects is almost endless and that along has the powers-that-be breathing down the necks of Chicago Police Detectives Paul Turner and Buck Fenwick. But as the two struggle to untangle...
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Este libro es en parte una biografía, en parte una historia musical y en parte un relato de misterio, en el que se unen tres hilos narrativos. El primero lo protagoniza J.S. Bach, y la partitura de las suites, escrita en el siglo XVIII y desaparecida; el segundo sigue a Pau Casals, y su histórico descubrimiento de estas piezas de Bach a finales del siglo XIX; y por fin, llegamos al siglo XXI y al autor de este libro, a su obsesión por las suites...
14) Pensar la danza
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Como todo mundillo artístico, el de la danza está lleno de personajes y anécdotas fascinantes que a veces pasan inadvertidas para el gran público. El crítico, director de orquesta y pianista Delfín Colomé nos lo descubre en esta recopilación de artículos en primera persona, que sólo un apasionado de la danza, entregado a ella desde hace veinte años, puede escribir.
Ameno e ilustrativo, este libro ayudará tanto al iniciado como al curioso...
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Estas "divagaciones" recogen las reflexiones heterogéneas de un músico que se encontró casualmente con la obra de Rossini, y quedó tan fascinado por ella que decidió dedicarle gran parte de su energía y de su vida.
No es una biografía, ni un análisis técnico-artístico de la producción rossiniana: es un relato escrito por un entusiasta de su obra, y el fruto de una larga experiencia. Músicos, musicólogos, cantantes, directores de orquesta,...
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En octubre de 1830, Richard Ford llegó a Sevilla con su familia y fijó su residencia allí durante más de tres años. En ese tiempo, recorrió gran parte del país a caballo o en diligencia, tomando nota de todo lo que veía y oía en una serie de cuadernos que llenó con descripciones de los monumentos y obras de arte que más le habían llamado la atención.
A partir de estas notas, publicó en 1845 A Handbook for Travellers in Spain, que despertó...
17) Political Poison
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Paul Turner is not your typical middle-aged cop. A widower, he lives with his two teenaged sons, and he is gay. He is also trusted by the brass to handle sensitive cases, so when a Chicago Alderman is found murdered, Turner is assigned to the case. The dead Alderman was not only a professor at the University of Chicago, but also a leading liberal gadfly with the media's ear. As Turner investigates, he discovers that jealous professors and old-guard...
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"Este libro nace de las preguntas que me he hecho a lo largo de varias décadas de actividad profesional como improvisador musical. Nace, pues, de la praxis y de las ideas que genera un contacto diario con esta forma de hacer música. Son estas preguntas las que explican la presencia de todo lo demás ... A menudo, cuando nos interesa algo, lo más difícil no es encontrar respuestas sino aclarar qué es, exactamente, lo que estamos preguntando"....
19) El oasis
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Novela ganadora de la primera edición del International Prize of Arabic Fiction en 2008.
Ambientada en el Egipto de finales del siglo XIX durante las revueltas contra la ocupación inglesa, esta novela plantea un paralelismo entre aquellos altercados y las actuales.
Traducido a más de 8 idiomas, este libro ha dado el reconocimiento internacional a Bahaa Taher, quien había estado censurado por el régimen militar egipcio durante décadas.
Una novela...
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Since when are vacations ever relaxing? All Chicago police Detective Paul Turner is hoping for on his annual retreat from the city and his job is a little peace and quiet. This time he's headed to the Canadian Great North Woods for a couple of weeks with family and friends - his two teenaged sons, his lover Ben, neighborhood pals, and his long-term police partner, Detective Buck Fenwick, along with his wife.
But, hopes of tranquility are soon crushed...
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